Table 5 Injury counts, percentages, and rates per 1000 Athlete-Exposures (AEs) by injury mechanism and type of event in NCAA Men’s Lacrosse, 2009/10–2014/15a
From: The epidemiology of NCAA men’s lacrosse injuries, 2009/10-2014/15 academic years
Competition | Practice | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Injury Mechanism | Injury count (%) | Rate and 95% CI (per 1000AE) | % NTLb | % Severec | Injury count (%) | Rate and 95% CI (per 1000AE) | % NTLb | % Severec |
Player contact | 133 (32.8) | 4.05 (3.37, 4.74) | 40.6 | 13.5 | 114 (17.5) | 0.68 (0.56, 0.81) | 40.4 | 10.5 |
Surface contact | 40 (9.9) | 1.22 (0.84, 1.60) | 40.0 | 12.5 | 56 (8.6) | 0.34 (0.25, 0.42) | 39.3 | 19.6 |
Ball contact | 17 (4.2) | 0.52 (0.27, 0.76) | 47.1 | 5.9 | 47 (7.2) | 0.28 (0.20, 0.36) | 23.4 | 10.6 |
Stick contact | 67 (16.5) | 2.04 (1.55, 2.53) | 58.2 | 6.0 | 46 (7.1) | 0.28 (0.20, 0.36) | 45.7 | 13.0 |
Other equipment contact | 3 (0.7) | 0.09 (0.00, 0.19) | 0.0 | 66.7 | 1 (0.2) | 0.01 (0.00, 0.02) | 0.0 | 100.0 |
Non-contact | 120 (29.6) | 3.66 (3.00, 4.31) | 46.7 | 15.0 | 260 (40.0) | 1.56 (1.37, 1.75) | 50.0 | 8.5 |
Overuse | 14 (3.5) | 0.43 (0.20, 0.65) | 64.3 | 0.0 | 105 (16.2) | 0.63 (0.51, 0.75) | 64.8 | 7.6 |
Illness/infection | 0 | 0.00 | -- | -- | 7 (1.1) | 0.04 (0.01, 0.07) | 28.6 | 14.3 |
Other/unknown | 11 (2.7) | 0.34 (0.14, 0.53) | 54.5 | 0.0 | 14 (2.2) | 0.08 (0.04, 0.13) | 57.1 | 7.1 |
Total | 405 (100.0) | 12.35 (11.14, 13.55) | 46.4 | 11.9 | 650 (100.0) | 3.90 (3.60, 4.21) | 47.4 | 10.3 |